The children’s commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, has published an index showing the extent of child vulnerability in different areas of the country.
It comes amid fears that the continuing coronavirus lockdown has removed most of the usual ways of identifying children at risk, including via school safeguarding procedures.
Figures from the Department for Education (DfE) show that before Easter 99 per cent of all children – and 95 per cent of all children defined by the government as “vulnerable” – were no longer attending school or early years education.
However, the numbers have improved slightly since Easter, with the proportion of vulnerable children in schools rising to 10 per cent or so.
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